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philanthropy corrugated with a smirk / printed aside every cardboard box and room / every cardboard house with every cardboard door.
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Ben had us over, me and him and his boy, Benji, to look at the supernova. Ben was always coming up with these things with the telescope. Jupiter's moons, Saturn's rings. On his wedding night he made everybody stop dancing and run out to the golf course so he could show us…
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148632
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The Italian was late. She was supposed to come into the store, meet him in the back, and arrange to take the last of his liquor.
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148620
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Look at this castle: fashioned from the sturdiest sand, pages of my name
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148655
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In my 14 to 15 year old life in the late 50s I worked as a clean-up boy in the neighborhood butcher shop up on 5th. Ave.,
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148661
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It was the dead of winter. I took my father's shotgun from his closet. He kept it wrapped up in one of those khaki-colored gun tote bags that had a zipper running the whole length of the gun. It was a 16-gauge, single action shotgun. Anyone could tell wha
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148698
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We can’t just bomb Berlin or Dresden,/
Nagasaki or Hanoi, to make things safe
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148566
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Above our bellies we are beautiful women with luscious breasts. Where there is skin, believe me, it is flawless, irresistible. Most of us have long hair, but there are some among us who keep their heads close cropped for aerodynamic…
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148596
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They make you work
For your pizza in Italy
You have to slice it yourself
While wearing a gas mask
To ward off the cigarette smoke
From every neighboring table
While chasing away the
Mosquitos and the pigeons
The flies and the gypsy r
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148532
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We were talking in the dark in my room. He lay on a mattress on the floor. He came for a sleepover.
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148562
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The laptop has ruined the sanctity of the library. And so I get up and go see Queen Jane.
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1485128
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Compartments trickle together/
in light diffuse and unreliable./
Fortify yourself against the day.
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I'm hearing a noise. I can't see it. It's hiding and seems to be coming from the other side of the creek. With boots on I slowly wade across. The water makes its light lapping sounds. Reaching the bank, I search for the noise. It must have a face, suntanned and warm, that I…
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148500
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She can still be normal, says Momma, knowing my sister can’t hear, forgetting I can.
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His eyes are wide then narrow and brown. Hers are gray then they look away, toward the back door where a delivery driver has walked in, carrying a tray. Nothing is going to happen today.
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148533
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The leaves/
seek reunion with the ground//
and leave the oak tree naked/
in December’s cold.
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148523
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Me sad because of results set forth in my life story.
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148577
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She tossed the big bird into the air. It wobbled, then flew away.
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148432
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...he was suddenly and hazily relieved that he had something in Persepolis and blue agave plants to talk to her about.
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148443
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Ey’, it’s where I followed him down
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148430
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Maybe it might be best to, you know, have less frequent meetings.
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148400
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Hits start, enters numbers, runs the program / Does this again one hundred times / Then takes a break
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148452
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The manicured lawn rolls down either side of the knoll, punctuated with flat granite plaques, the occasional bouquet of cut flowers, a smattering of faded eight-inch American flags.
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148400
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Early in the morning
I wanted to send you something
for when you wake;
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148487
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He invited her in for a Martini and she graciously accepted.
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148464
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You left paint and blood smeared on the wall.
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148440
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One could count fifty moons hanging in the sky, in rows and columns of smaller skies.
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148445
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Today I’m feeling crabby and haggard and technology makes it easy to get to the point.
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I'm not sure whetherI drink to numbthe pain or toactually feelsomething.
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